Major & Minor Requirements

Major Requirements (10 Courses)

NOTE: Students who have completed POLSCI 130D Introduction to Political Inquiry may count this course as 1 of the 3 elective courses.”

• Foundation Courses
  • STA 101 Data Analysis and Statistical Inference OR Higher Level 
  • One of the following:
      POLSCI 175FS Freedom and Responsibility
      POLSCI 180FS Hierarchy and Spontaneous Order: The Nature of Freedom in Political and Economic Organizations
      POLSCI 175 Introduction to Political Philosophy
      POLSCI 275 Left, Right and Center
• Two courses AND a capstone course (3 courses total) selected from one of the following Fields of Study:
  • Political Economy (PE)
  • Political Behavior and Identities (BI)
  • Political Institutions (PI)
  • Political Methodology (M)
  • Political Theory (N)
  • Security, Peace and Conflict (SPC)
• Two courses selected from a second field
• Three elective courses taught by the political science department, or approved by the Director of Undergraduate Studies

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Minor Requirements (5 Courses)

• At least two courses at the 300 or higher level
• Four courses must be Duke courses taught by a member of the political science instructional staff